Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed a growing trend…both within my clients and the clients at the day spa where I work. People are experiencing an increase in lower back pain…some to the point of crippling their ability to move through their lives.

Sometimes, of course, such situations are as a result of a serious medical condition which requires appropriate medical treatment from a physician. And sometimes, such situations are as a result of feeling unsupported in some aspect of life. If the source of the pain is the latter, no amount of medical care, chiropractic care, acupuncture, or massage will fix the pain…only changing the situation will bring any amount of relief. That being said, that change could be anything from changing an attitude to leaving a situation completely.

Coincidentally, a current theme in the cards I’ve been drawing recently, regardless of which deck I use, is that we are at the end of a cycle. Many different spiritual teachers are saying similar things, so I’m fairly certain that this is not a new idea or thought. However, how that ending shows up in our day-to-day mundane aspects of life is not always addressed in these grand statements…sometimes we can find ourselves completely frazzled, stressed out, exhausted, and panicked without a clear understanding as to why.

The why is this: that which once served our greatest happiness does no longer.

Because so many of us are experiencing this ending, a lot of other people are being affected by our choices…whether we want them to be or not. For example, one person in a relationship may decide that he or she is ready to move on…and the other person is not. One person in a relationship may decide that he or she is ready to commit more deeply and the other person has to decide whether to agree or walk away. One person may decide to sell his or her house and everyone else in the family, or the tenants, now have to face the consequences of that decision. One person may decide to go back to school leaving friends and family to adjust to that person’s change in availability. One person may decide to open a company or close a company…one will hire, one will lay-off. One person may decide to move to a new location…sometimes across the country or to a different country, leaving friends and family behind. One person may decide to leave his or her job situation, either for a new position in the same career or change careers altogether…affecting co-workers, a company or institution, and friends and family.

The first key in all of this change is that we are powerful…beyond our greatest imaginations. Look at all of the changes listed in the previous paragraph simply because of one person’s decision. You could be that person…and you probably are, in some capacity. Yet, without the appropriate support, even the most fluent change-er and grow-er can feel vulnerable…and experience some pretty severe lower back pain.

The second key is the saying, “As above, so below.” We address the situation in a higher dimension where things shift more easily and quickly and then simply reflect the change down into this dimension. What’s even more lovely about this process is that our mind’s consciousness doesn’t have to know how to do this…our Higher Selves already know. All we have to do is connect in and up and ask for the shift to be done.

In this particular situation, the shift is happening through our contracts. Before we experience life in this dimension we work with our guides and teachers to create contracts for this lifetime. This is how certain people or events “miraculously” appear in our lives at just the right moment. However, if we’ve altered our path slightly through our choices, or we haven’t updated our contracts recently, the opportunities or people who come to us through these changes may not be helpful. Similarly, when we’ve completed our contracts, we need to put new ones in place.

And that is what is going to be happening for the next two weeks. We are updating or rewriting our contracts, and as we do this, we will be releasing people and situations from our lives. Some of these people are not in physical form…some of them have been our support group in different dimensions and they contribute to our lives through our “conscience”…that inner voice or voices that guide us. Sometimes those inner voices conflict with each other or with our inner wisdom. When we become aware of that, it’s time to release that soul from our support group…our contract for working together has ended.

The result of this release is that there is now room to bring in different souls and situations…souls who not only vibrate at a higher frequency and who can help us move forward in the direction we wish to go, but opportunities that are in alignment with our current spiritual path.

As this “changing of the guards” takes place, our body interprets this vulnerability and shift as a lack of support…hence, lower back pain. So it’s important to ask for increased protection and support from the higher realms. The Divine Masculine Energy in the forms of Shiva and Ganesh/a are helpful for transforming that which has completed and for removing obstacles between where we are and where we wish to go. Similarly, the energy of Archangels Michael and Raphael are fabulous for protection and cleaning and healing the old in preparation for the new. The Divine Feminine Energy in the forms of Quan Yin and Mother Mary are beautiful energies of unconditional love and compassion as we experience the transition. Archangel Metatron is an excellent strategist, and the Goddess Isis brings in the sacred Source of feminine power and creation.

Most importantly, your soul family is very near to you…desiring to be your source of strength and support. These are the souls who have known you intimately for aeons…and love you with a fierce and passionate commitment. Invite them to surround you…to come so close to you that you can’t help but feel them and their energy…so close that your back now feels like it’s leaning up against a strong, immovable object…and object so strong, that your back feels supported enough to relax and move fluidly, releasing the pain and the fear and the tension of protection so that there’s room to dance…to flow…to invite in the new.

I know that sounds silly. Breathing does seem to be a bit of a necessity for life…at least that’s what I’ve been told. And, occasionally, I experience the benefits of this necessity, so I suppose that it’s true. However, unless you are nothing like me and never resort to shallow breaths in stressful situations, today really will require us to focus on our breath because it’s going to be a massive release day.

On massive release days all sorts of stuff comes up for us…old memories, old patterns, old beliefs, old habits, old relationships, old hurts, lots and lots of emotions and tears. And on massive release days, everybody else is also experiencing these same triggers, emotions and memories. So, the potential is that we will be swimming in a sea of energetic slough…for that is really what’s happening…pruning of all that is dead and no longer serving life.

It’s beautiful actually, and is what your soul has requested, although it may not feel like it in the moment. This cleansing and clearing means that some part of your life has ended…some pattern, some belief, some way of being, some relationship, some perception has finished and completed and it’s time to let it go. So, it rises to your consciousness on the way out. And this is where a lot of people can hinder the process if they don’t understand what is happening.

As these memories or emotions or patterns or relationships rise to your consciousness, many people engage with these things…analyzing them, re-experiencing them, connecting with the emotions and wallowing in the pain all over again. When people do this, it stops the movement of the release and, instead, re-attaches this memory or emotion or pattern or relationship to you. If you can avoid connecting with the memory or emotion or relationship, you can simply acknowledge its release and allow it to flow out of you.

By allowing all of this to leave, a space is created. This space is quite helpful and allows for two things to happen. The first is that what remains has room to move and shift and reconfigure. This reconfiguration is inevitable. No one remains stagnant unless he/she chooses to hold on to what has already died. If a person is truly honest with him/herself, he/she must admit that he/she is a different person than he/she was two years ago…five years ago…ten years ago…twenty years ago. And this means that internal reconfiguration must take place in order for the thoughts, emotions, beliefs, practice, and behaviors to be in alignment with one another…establishing energetic integrity.

The second thing that happens, now that release is allowed to flow out, is that there is room to welcome that which will support life, thriving, and abundance. This new thing, waiting to come into the space, has already been created by you in a different dimension, but until you let go of that which is already finished, that new creation and desire of your heart cannot come to you…because there is not room to receive it.

So, there might be a lot of fear today…or anger…or panic…or pain…or tears…or frustration…or jealousy…or inadequacy…or loneliness. It may be yours, or you may simply be feeling what another person is releasing.

Either way, the first step is to energetically shield yourself. If you need help, this post has a protocol which can assist you. Additionally, Archangel Michael will willing help anyone who asks him to protect them with his blue light. Also remember that your team and body deva need to shield themselves for you will feel whatever they feel…sometimes even more strongly than you feel yourself. So invite them to do what you do for the maximum support.

Then, breathe. Just breathe through the release. No matter how difficult or painful it is, it is temporary. Breathe deeply. This is vitally important, for deep breathing allows for life to flow through your body, assisting in the release, without hyperventilating. Breathe deeply into the root of the first chakra, then exhale until there is no more space to contract…way beyond the point of no air in the lungs. As you breathe in, set the intention to only breathe in pure love and light, and as you exhale, set the intention to breathe out stagnation, death, and all that has completed.

You may need to do this several times today, so be gentle with yourself. The eclipse will be sending you energetic information that will accomplish the internal recalibration and the updating of your reference points. Because this process is so deep and so intense today, it will probably come in waves so that we can handle it, so just relax into the process whenever you feel another releasing/breathing session coming up. And remember, through it all you are deeply loved, supported, and celebrated for all you do in all dimensions where you express yourself…seen and unseen…and for the courage you carry in your heart. For as you shift, release, clear, and recalibrate, humanity shifts with you.

Have you ever had a computer lock up on you? Perhaps you were writing a paper, or playing a video game, or entering data, or finishing a bank transaction and everything freezes. You move your mouse around. Nothing. You press the Esc button. Nothing. You press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Nothing. You smack the hard drive. Nothing. Your only option is to hard restart the computer…potentially losing everything you were working on.

Today is this freeze-up moment…that moment of nothingness before a new moon cycle…that stillness before an eclipse. It’s that space in time when all is quiet just before the reset button is pushed (tomorrow). It’s that place of where soul is revealed…where all the trappings of life and illusions fall away. The place where deep adjustments can be made…like a tailor redesigning seams for a garment in order to fit the changing body.

Today, I invite you to allow your attention to go inward…to pay attention to the frozen-ness, not only in time, but also within. Where are you frozen in your body? Where are you frozen in your thoughts and emotions? Where are you frozen in your expression? As you identify and locate these spots, spend some time with them. Sit in them. Experience reality from those perspectives, and infuse unconditional love into those spaces and perceptions. If you need support in this process, here is a protocol to assist you.

We invite you to take a few deep breaths into your belly. As you do, gather all of your energy and awareness out of the future on the inhale, and out of the past on the exhale…until you are existing only in this present breath of now.

We invite the Sacred Masculine to create a safe and sacred healing chamber, using the appropriate sacred geometric shapes, healing holograms, mandalas, sounds, and song. We invite the Sacred Feminine to fill the healing chamber with life potentials, gentleness, passion, compassion, courage, unconditional love, acceptance, abundance, and joy. We invite the Ascended Masters, your guides, you from the future as an Ascended Master, and any other beings of love and light who wish to partake in this sacred healing to gather now in this safe and sacred space around you.

We invite your Higher Self, your body deva’s Higher Self, and your team’s Higher Selves to actively connect and engage with your own healing sources, your own spiritual power…to connect with all aspects of your beings. We also invite you, your body deva, and your team to ground into your appropriate grounding grids…transferring information and upgrading perceptions and information in the process.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields and the Guides, to locate all places that have been frozen and are ready to release. We ask that these places include all dimensions, all incarnations, and all lifetimes. We invite your Higher Self to work with the energetic fields, the Guides, and the Sacred Feminine to sing the sound of your essence into those spaces and places and memories…that beautiful, exquisite sound that is unique to you, and encompasses all that you are and all that you will become…love expressed. We invite Ganesh/Ganesha and Archangel Michael to assist in the clearing, and Archangel Raphael and Quan Yin to assist in the healing. As the frozen-ness begins to thaw, and energy begins to move again, we invite your Guides to remind you of your essence…to show you your pureness and innocence…your whole and complete state of being. We invite the same to be done with your team and body deva.

As the frozen space and places are thawed and cleared, we ask that all information be returned to its right and perfect place, along with all relevant and appropriate information. We ask that the hidden gem within each situation be revealed, and we invite that gem to be anchored into the Divine Line. We ask that updated templates, blueprints, maps, contracts, orientations, and directions for your greatest passion and happiness be infused into the grids around the situations. We invite your body deva and team to do the same.

We ask that the Guides, Gaia, and team model to you and your body deva an increase in magnetics, courage, and support as you prepare for the reset tomorrow. We invite your soul family to come close, infusing your energy fields with love and remembrance for all you are. And we invite you to just relax in this field of love, support, healing, and movement…allowing yourself to be gently guided through and to whatever is appropriate for you at this time.

We ask that all reference points, all energy grids, personality grids, all ways of perceiving and being perceived in the world are updated. We ask that you are wrapped in sheets of rainbow light, gently sealing these vibrations in to whatever degree is appropriate to your spiritual evolutionary state. We are in deep gratitude to Divinity and the angelic realm for serving and assisting in every breath and in every way. We are in deep gratitude to you for all that you do in all dimensions, seen and unseen…and for the courage you carry in your heart, for as you shift and evolve, you shift the Universe.

Living a life of awareness and compassion on this planet doesn’t mean that one is protected from pain or challenges. All it means is that one has tools with which to practice when such moments arise…for they will…because everyone is free to choose.

For much of humanity’s history on Earth, the response to a tragedy has been to create more tragedy…an eye for an eye. For those who actually experienced the tragedy this response is understandable…if a father lost a child he wants the killer to be killed. But what about those who didn’t actually experience the tragedy…they only heard about it or knew someone who had been involved? These people felt the pain of the situation and assumed that because they felt the pain, it was their responsibility to carry it. In time, people learned that by sharing pain, everyone’s burdens are lighter. At the time, this was appropriate and seemed to be the kind thing to do…the compassionate thing to do…the humane thing to do. And, this is still the present sentiment by many in society today…I feel your pain, therefore it must be mine to carry.

But are these the best responses to tragedy?

In Wilderness First Aid training, I was taught something vitally important: Never add to the tragedy by putting yourself, the responder, in danger; the emergency is not yours. This was a harsh pill to swallow at first because my instinct is always to help regardless of the consequences. I realized, however, that my instinctual response is one that doesn’t honor me at all. Rather it is a response that sacrifices me…but without the choice of sacrifice. This type of response is not honorable…it is foolish.

Similarly, when an emergency happens at a grand scale, it is natural for humanity to feel the pain of those who experienced it. This is called empathic sensitivity, and it is a gift. However, the previous coping pattern of carrying the emotional pain even if one didn’t experience the tragedy creates a society and consciousness that is all emotionally crippled and burdened…not just the ones who have experienced the tragedy. With the responders also damaged, very little help can be offered to anyone. This emotional pattern, while historically beneficial for survival is no longer honorable…it is foolish, and co-dependent.

I experienced this so startlingly when my father had a stroke. He was in a different country from me, and I had no way of communicating with anyone in his country to find out what was happening with him. When his siblings and cousins finally were able to make contact and learn more, I went into grieving mode. I imagined what it must be like to not be able to speak, or use my arms to type or write, or be able to walk or move on my own. Just the thought of it made me teary, so I was teary quite often. When a wise woman asked me the source of my tears, I told her. Her response shocked me: “Why are you grieving something you haven’t lost? You can still use your arms. You can still speak. You can still walk. This didn’t happen to you; this happened to him. Let him deal with the consequences…they aren’t yours.”

I was shocked. She was right. It didn’t happen to me. I could feel guilty about it, but it didn’t change the fact that it happened to him and not to me…the consequences were his journey…the lessons were his to learn…not mine. Nothing about the situation belonged to me. And yet, I could still feel the pain and the loss in the situation. I didn’t know what to do with those empathic sensations…they were so strong sometimes. How does one cope with these emotions in a co-creative way?

By holding space.

In holding space you aren’t invalidating another’s pain…neither are you being insensitive to your empathic sensations. By holding space, the emotions stay with whoever owns them, allowing that person to fully learn and experience all this situation offers. This experience belongs to the owner of the emotions…not to you. If you step in and take some of those emotions, you are robbing the other person of the opportunity to learn and grow, ultimately injuring and confusing you both. Learning and healing stops. By holding space, you are witnessing another’s journey and supporting him/her through the tangled web of emotions without carrying them on yourself. Holding space for another is the most honorable thing one person can do for another. It says, “I see you. I honor you. I know you can do this because you are powerful. I value you too much to interfere, but I admire you too much not to watch your magnificence.”

So how do you hold space?

First, and most importantly, shield yourself. It is much harder to assist another if your own emotions are clouded by those of others. Clean and clear and protect your own energetic space first, inviting your body deva and team to do the same.

Then ask the other person if he/she will allow you to hold space. If you don’t know the person or you have no way to physically contact him/her, ask his/her Higher Self for permission.

Next, invite Archangels Michael and Raphael, your team, and Guides to surround that person, that person’s team, and Guides with a safe and protected space so that he/she only has to contend with his/her experience.

Fourthly, infuse the safe and sacred space with unconditional love, support, acceptance, courage, tenderness, and compassion. Quan Yin, Mother Mary, and the Sacred Feminine embody these qualities and will always be willing to participate if you ask.

And finally, watch. Without judgement. Watch as this person faces and struggles through the challenge in front of him/her. It is awesome and breathtaking. Never interfere…simply keep the space safe and infused with supportive energies. Be present and aware of all this person experiences and notice the humility that comes when you witness some of the deepest and most intimately primal parts of this human in front of you. Honor this vulnerability. Honor the trust placed in you to witness this process. Honor the connection that occurs when the energy between you is clean and appropriate. But most of all, honor the love that brought you together for this very moment…so that your empathy could be used to truly help and heal and support, from a place of integrity and co-creation.

With the challenges of last week, letting go of old ways and the remnant connections that no longer serve our greatest happiness, there is quite a swirl of energy that has resulted…similar to a dam bursting. All kinds of debris is floating around us…some of of it belongs to us, most of it doesn’t. And yet we’re feeling it all.

There is much wisdom in this time, and much in the Universe that is supporting us as we move forward. We are in the year of the Water Snake, as well as in the astrological sign Pisces. We’re moving from a full to a new moon (also water energy) and we live on a water planet. Water represents emotions, so if there are unbidden tears, or unexpected intense emotions, trust that these are all part of this time in order to cleanse and purge.

In the springtime, water flows in order to flush away the old, nourish the seeds that have not yet sprouted, and bring nutrients to support the growth that is to come. It isn’t a pretty time of year at first…mostly rain and slush and mud and lots of turbulence with temperatures. If you live in a place with extreme temperatures, the ground demonstrates this turbulence with rocks getting pushed to the surface, roads sprouting holes overnight, and sidewalks buckling with the expansion and contraction of the temperatures.

When this happens with our emotions, it can get overwhelming…particularly when it’s intense for a long period of time (more than half a day). An easy thing to do is to shut down and detach from all emotion because you need a break. This could be done through alcoholic or drug substances, food, partying, a hectic schedule, incessant talking, watching t.v., reading, taking classes…anything that keeps you distracted from the emotions that need your attention. After all, there could be a belief that you will be exposing a weakness if you allow emotions to show. So doing any or all of these things is a matter of staying strong and coping through the challenges rather than falling apart. In fact, there could be a belief that such coping strategies are points of pride…I am a strong person because I do not show emotion, and I am proud of that. Similarly, there could be a belief that those who show emotion are weaklings and should be punished or ridiculed, or at the very least looked down upon because only those without emotion are strong.

I invite you to reconsider this stance of pride in no emotion.

As one who once held that same conviction, the consideration of a different perspective was one at which I scoffed for quite some time. It took falling in love with someone who was in too much pain to return the love to teach me this strength…the practice of keeping my wanting heart open through my pain in order to support and unconditionally love another. That was the single most difficult thing I have ever had to do, and I can honestly say that feeling my emotions and keeping my heart open despite their raw intensity takes way more strength than just shutting down.

If you choose to practice keeping your heart open in the face of swirling emotions, begin by creating an energetically safe space for yourself. It is not wise to keep the heart open in order to be banged up by anyone or anything that is swirling about or lashing out. If you do not protect yourself, you will simply subject your raw self to all sorts of extreme swings of emotions which will only make things worse. Ask Archangel Michael to teach you how to create an energetic cocoon of protection around all layers of your body, and pull your energy into your Divine Line. I often think of my protection as an egg-like structure that extends 1′ above my head and 1′ below my feet, and up to 8′ around my body.

Create any kind of protective shell on the outside of the cocoon. When I began shielding myself, I imagined thick steel beams as ribs crisscrossing the entire egg-like structure, with steel sheets riveted on the outside of the ribs. Then I placed a magnetic field that repelled all other energy except high frequency energy of unconditional love. I had to build that structure many times a day, often reinforcing it any time a challenging person or situation arose. Over time (3 years), my imagination has softened to an elastic shield of Mother-of-Pearl through which I can see. It is no less strong or less protective…simply that my needs have shifted over time, as yours will.

As you move through today, practice shielding yourself whenever you feel the urge to shut down your heart. If you don’t think of it until afterwards, shield then, and practice opening your heart again within the safety of the cocoon. Pay attention to whatever thoughts and emotions arise with this practice, as they will be keys to some important beliefs that may be ready to transform. Listen, go within, and practice. Tomorrow, will be step two.

When something has ended or completed, that something may have been such a large part of your life that it’s hard to comprehend all the ways you are enmeshed with it. If, for example, you break up with a long-time intimate partner, you may know you don’t want to get back together, but you have trouble accepting the new person in his/her life. Or, a family member transitions out of this dimension, and even after many years have passed, something will trigger a memory of that person and a flood of tears and a fresh feeling of pain will wash over you.

These experiences often happen because there still remains a tie between you and the other person or situation. Often, as painful as it is to keep that connection, the thought of releasing connection is more painful, so we hold on to whatever remnant piece we can cling to.

When we do this, we hold everyone back…the other person or persons, or a particular situation…as well as ourselves. We fill our energetic hands with so many dead connections…connections that have completed and no longer will bring us life and abundance…that life cannot come to us, for we do not have the capacity to receive it. By releasing the connections in this dimension, we make room for new ones, full of life, love, joy, abundance, and our greatest happiness. This is not to say that these people or situations didn’t bring us happiness…for they did, otherwise we wouldn’t cling to them so ferociously. At one point in time, they were exactly what our souls desired…and the Universe responded by bringing it to us.

Now, it is time to release those things in order to receive the next set of blessings our souls have requested. This doesn’t mean we won’t feel or experience those people or situations again…simply that an obligatory and tying connection will no longer exist.

We invite you to take a few deep breaths into your belly. We invite you to gather all of your energy and awareness out of the future, and out of the past into this present breath of now, pulling yourself deep into your Divine Line. We call forth the Ascended Masters, your guides, Archangels Michael and Raphael, Ganesh, you from the future as an Ascended Master to gather now in this safe and sacred space around you. We invite your Higher Self, your body deva’s Higher Self, to actively connect and engage with your own healing source, your own spiritual power, to connect with all aspects of your being. We call forth the appropriate sacred geometric healing holograms and mandalas that have the capacity to support you from a place of clarity, discernment, balance, empowerment, non-reactivity, personal responsibility, inner trust, inner control, self-love, the consciousness of abundance, protection, gentleness, grace, and integrity. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields, Archangels Michael and Raphael, Ganesh, and the guides to energetically locate all vows, promises, contracts, responsibilities, and obligations that you have made with another person, system, institution, situation, project, animal, plant, and planet in all dimensions and all lifetimes. We invite you to express gratitude for all the blessings, wisdom, lessons, opportunities, and love that these connections brought to you. We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with Archangels Michael and Raphael to gently dissolve all vows, promises, contracts, responsibilities, and obligations that no longer serve you from a place of love, abundance, joy, and your greatest happiness…activating the seed of wisdom residing within the connection that has now completed, and returning it to you at the level of your Higher Self, cleansed, cleaned, and recalibrated for this present breath of now. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields, the Archangels Michael and Raphael, Ganesh, and the guides to energetically locate all all vows, promises, contracts, responsibilities, and obligations that another person, system, institution, situation, project, animal, plant, and planet has made with you in all dimensions and all lifetimes. We invite you to to express gratitude for all the blessings, wisdom, lessons, opportunities, and love that you offered to these connections, and the service you so willingly gave. We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with Archangels Michael and Raphael to gently dissolve all vows, promises, contracts, responsibilities, and obligations that no longer serve you from a place of love, abundance, joy, and your greatest happiness that another has made with you, sending the seed of wisdom residing within the connection back to its right and perfect place, where it has the capacity to be received, along with all relevant and appropriate information. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the Archangels, Ganesh, the energetic fields, and the guides to bring in new templates of support for connection from a place of freedom co-creation, collaboration, acceptance, unconditional love, equality, personal responsibility, abundance, joy, and energetic integrity. We invite these templates to align to your soul’s sound, wisdom, mastery, and purpose, receiving the appropriate information for this new path that is being created for you in your greatest happiness. We invite you to hold all of the energy of the vows, promises, contracts, responsibilities, and obligations that you have made with another person, system, institution, situation, project, animal, plant, and planet from all dimensions and all lifetimes in these new templates…using that energy on you and for you…vowing and committing to you and your sacred evolution. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We ask that all reference points, all energy grids, personality grids, all ways of perceiving and being perceived in the world are updated. We ask that you are wrapped in sheets of rainbow light, gently sealing these vibrations in to whatever degree is appropriate to your spiritual evolutionary state. We are in deep gratitude to the angelic realm for serving and assisting in every breath and in every way. We are in deep gratitude to you for all that you do…seen and unseen…and for the courage you carry in your heart…for as you shift and evolve, you shift the Universe.

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Have you ever walked into a room and felt as though you could “cut the tension with a knife?” How about feeling someone “boring holes into your back with their eyes?” Have you ever sensed someone you loved before you saw him/her? Or thought of someone just as he/she called you?

Believe it or not, these abilities are actually normal…forgetting we know how to do this is not. However, having these abilities in this dense, physical dimension can be challenging to say the least. Sometimes you may feel as though you are bombarded with so much stimuli that it physically hurts. Children particularly are aware of these intense experiences and can easily become overwhelmed and lash out in unexpected ways. If you or your children experience anything like this, you may be interested in reading The Highly Sensitive Person in order to learn a bit more about yourself or someone you know.

I remember many times when I begged for God to take this gift away from me. I felt everything…not just what I was feeling, but what everyone around me was feeling, and thinking too. I could only handle being around other people for a very short while before I was completely drained, and yet I love being around people! Reconciling these two extremes was impossible and experiencing the dramatic pendulum was so painful for me that I wished for this sensitivity to go away…in fact, I hated it and cursed it many many times. It still never went away.

Learning to live in a sensory violent world as a sensitive is challenging, but not impossible. And, it really is a gift as I’ve learned…you just have to learn how to harness the gift and protect yourself. The latter is the first step, for without it you will never be able to discern what is you and what isn’t. Until you can do that, you’ll subject yourself to anyone and everyone’s whims and be tossed about like a rag doll. So, here’s an exercise with which to begin.

Pull yourself into your Divine Line, along with all your energy that you have outside of your Divine Line. These are often easy to identify because it’s all those areas in which you have insecurities. If you have doubts or feel uncertain about something, chances are you have your energy on someone or something else in order to fulfill that need. So, pull those lines back to you and into your Divine Line.

Invite Archangel Michael to help you create an energetic shield around your entire body. This force field can be constructed in such a way that only the highest frequency of love and light can penetrate it. Once constructed, you will feel a stillness and calm. If you are a sensitive, you’ll feel like you can finally take a deep breath instead of being in constant hyper-vigilance (which depletes your adrenals).

After a few deep breaths, look around within your protected and shielded space. You’ll start to notice that there are some pieces of others in your space, so clear them out, as they will distort your ability to discern. Invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields and the guides to locate all reference points and energetic lines that others have placed onto you and gently lift them up and off of you and your grids, sending them back to their right and perfect place, where they have the capacity to be received, along with all relevant and appropriate information. Every time you come across an energy that doesn’t belong to you, simply do the above protocol. Do this until you are clean inside your bubble. Invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

Now, just sit in your space. Reacquaint yourself with you…and just you. This is the normal state of being. Familiarize yourself with it. The more you do, the more easily you will identify when you’ve allowed someone else into your space. And you will…it’s just part of the process. So, be gentle with yourself as you gradually become aware of your energetic patterns and then just clear it all again. There is no judgement…just awareness.

An extra piece of information that I found helpful is this: whenever there are solar flares, your energetic shields will dissolve much faster. While advanced shields can last 12 hours, solar flares can shorten those to 2 hours. When you start feeling raw or vulnerable or temperamental or irritated, it’s a sure sign that your shield has come down. When you become aware of it, simply express gratitude for noticing and then again for knowing how to fix it and then fix it. It’s that simple, and that gentle.

Finally, once you’re cleaned and cleared and shielded, complete the protocol: updating all your reference points, personality grids, energetic templates, ways of perceiving and being perceived. Allow the higher realms to wrap you in sheets of rainbow light, gently sealing in these vibrations to the level that is appropriate for your spiritual evolutionary state. Express gratitude to Archangel Michael and any other beings of love and light who assisted you. Then open to receive gratitude from the higher realms for having the courage to shift, grow, and evolve…for as you shift, you shift humanity.

Today’s topic was an interesting and complex one to unpack…it has to do with dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities that are no longer relevant. They not irrelevant because of anything anyone has done incorrectly; rather, they are irrelevant because those options are no longer needed. It’s similar to the concept of a child’s brain around the age of two years.

At this age, a person’s brain is huge, often with the largest number of dendrites a person will have in his/her lifetime. This is because the brain just doesn’t know what this person is going to want/need/use, so it prepares for all options. As choices are made, options narrow, leaving many unnecessary ones hanging useless. These unused ones are pruned to make room for the chosen options (dendrites) to grow and network with other chosen options (dendrites).

Energetically, a similar situation exists…except there’s an added dimension of inheritance. This inheritance includes the concept of karma as well as energetic inheritance from your ancestors.

From my perspective, karma is a way of learning and rewarding. The learning is usually unpleasant, and the rewards may or may not come when we would like. Because of the speed of time in the past (slow), karma often didn’t manifest until many years later. So the lessons could either take a really long time to learn (being that they were so far removed from the consequences that the connection for understanding was missed), or the lesson had already been learned, but the karma in its time delay didn’t realize it and came anyway, and was interpreted as a punishment for something completely unrelated. Fortunately, karma isn’t set in stone…it’s simply the default option for living. Conscious living usually allows one to rise above karma. One of the exceptions is if karmic ropes still exist.

Energetic inheritance is a really interesting one. Often times, when a parent or grandparent is unable to finish a life-long project, or has failed at a massive task, children or grandchildren will energetically sense this unfinished business, particularly when the parents or grandparents pass on, energetically pick it up and attempt to complete it. The children or grandchildren think they are doing something honorable for the family, but often find that they too can either not complete the task, or it goes horribly wrong when they try. This is because it’s not theirs to complete. And no matter how much effort they put into completing it, it will never be completed by them either. Which means, it probably didn’t belong to the parent or grandparent either…who knows how long this task has been passed down unnecessarily…because only the person who began it can complete it…or dissolve it.

When all of these situations are put together, unused options, karma ropes, and energetic inheritance, the result is one massive tangle of ends of unfinished business…which are magnetic. By magnetic, I mean that they attract more situations like them to whoever is carrying them. But, if they don’t belong to you, or you haven’t developed those options, or you’ve already learned the karmic lesson, you can’t actually use these opportunities or situations that come to you. And, these opportunities are actually confusing you because even though you think that this is logically a great idea, your heart tells you otherwise and you just don’t know what to do.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields, Archangels Michael, Raphael, Nathaniel, and the guides, to energetically locate all remnants of dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities in all dimensions, lifetimes, and incarnations that you are carrying and that do not belong to you. We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with Archangels Michael, Raphael, Nathaniel, and the guides, to gently lift all remnants of these dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities up and off of your energetic fields in all dimensions, lifetimes, and incarnations, sending them back to their right and perfect place where they have the capacity to be received, along with all relevant and appropriate information. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields, Archangels Michael, Raphael, Nathaniel, and the guides, to energetically locate all remnants of dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities in all dimensions, lifetimes, and incarnations that you are carrying that no longer belong in this lifetime or belong in a different lifetime. We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with Archangels Michael, Raphael, Nathaniel, and the guides, to either dissolve or gently lift all remnants of these dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities up and off of your energetic fields in all dimensions, lifetimes, and incarnations, sending them back to their right and perfect place where they have the capacity to be received, along with all relevant and appropriate information. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We invite Archangel Michael to clean up any remaining pieces. We invite Archangel Raphael to gently heal all places where those remnants lived for so long, dissolving any residual magnetic attraction to anything that is not in alignment with your soul’s purpose in this present breath of now.

We invite you, at the level of your Higher Self, to work with the energetic fields, the guides, and Archangel Nathaniel to recalibrate your energetic grids to your own soul’s frequency, sound, essence, mandala, and light signature, aligning all remaining dreams, contracts, tasks, responsibilities, projects, relationships, or opportunities to your soul’s purpose in this present breath of now from a place of humility, grace, compassion, self-love, personal responsibility, energetic integrity, and unconditional love. We invite your body deva and your team to do the same.

We ask that all reference points be updated, all personality grids, all ways of perceiving and being perceived in all directions of time and dimensions. We are in deep gratitude to the angelic realm for serving and assisting in this way. We are in deep gratitude to you for all that you do, seen and unseen, and for the courage you carry in your heart. For as you shift, you shift humanity.

Today holds the capacity to support us and our daily lives from a place of tenderness.

Tenderness is usually experienced after something else…and usually, that something else is a significant event that causes the heart space to explode open. Most often, tenderness is experienced in the face of vulnerability…by both the giver and the receiver.

Growing up, I believed that vulnerability was a weakness…something that could and would be exploited and used against me…and, oftentimes it was. I didn’t know those people were in just as much or more pain than I was and what we all needed was compassion and tenderness. So, I reacted to their expression of pain by accepting it as mine. I shoved my vulnerability way down and built lots of walls of toughness…thinking those walls would protect me from being hurt again. They didn’t. But by the time I realized that, I had built several fortresses. As I faced them, realizing their futility, the idea of taking them down and being raw and real and vulnerable on purpose was terrifying.

Fortunately, I had wonderful teachers who taught me how to shield myself from the energies of others so that I could tear them down…I could be vulnerable and protected. Learning this has been so valuable for me because it allows me to be real and raw and honest and open even when others’ pain causes them to lash out at me. And at first, some responded that way. When they did, Archangel Michael was right there beside me the entire time…protecting me and shielding me until I was strong enough to shield myself. His protection allowed me to feel safe so that I could continue taking down the walls…increasing my vulnerability and openness…even in the face of others’ pain.

Through this process, I was surprised to find that the strength it took to be vulnerable and open was exponentially more than the strength required to keep the walls up. I would retreat to my house and bedroom at the end of each day completely exhausted and in need of support, nurturing, and healing. And that’s when I first discovered tenderness.

Not from another person…from myself…toward myself. A gentle acceptance, nurturing, support, and love…no judgement…no harshness…just being.

This is what I invite you to discover and experience for yourself today…maybe for the first time…maybe again in a deeper way…for today’s energy supports this time of healing in the vulnerable places. You may feel as though your resolutions are too big or overwhelming. You may be feeling lost and confused as to what to do next in your life. You may be wondering why all these emotions and thoughts are coming up and you have no idea what to do about them.

Whatever it is, be tenderness…to yourself. Support the vulnerability and honor whatever is occurring…even if you have no idea what’s going on. Call out to Archangel Michael to protect you in your vulnerability so that you can be tender with yourself in all your raw places and just allow them to be…without judgement. Sit with those places and listen to the teachings they have to offer you…they are filled with pearls of wisdom and love and transformation. Allow the walls to gently dissolve, revealing the true essence of you…which in truth is love and light and bliss.